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NBA Trade Deadline Eve LIVE Buzz Bonanza!

Jake Fischer and I will be filing frequent items here and updating this story all day

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Feb 04, 2026
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It's Wednesday. The Fourth of February.

NBA Trade Deadline Eve.

There is frankly no time to bang out full stories, so we're going to try something new for us at The Stein Line: Short (but very deeply reported) updates on every Trade Season topic that crosses our desk.

We are suddenly up to 14 in-season trades after a busy Wednesday … and entering after the weekend with a total of one: Trae Young-to-Washington. Read on for item after item of fresh deadline reporting as we await what happens with three more All-Stars — Giannis Antetokounmpo, Ja Morant and Domantas Sabonis — in the wake of the Wizards' stunning acquisition of Anthony Davis from Dallas.

A very handy Anthony Davis Trade social media graphic from my colleagues at Sportsnet in Canada.

How Dallas found an AD deal

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